FasTRaX Investing

Dolf de Roos, Ph.D. and world-renowned real estate investor and author of the book "Real Estate Riches How to Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money" poses four simple questions when comparing investing in real estate with other investments. He asks the reader to imagine you had $100,000 to invest.

• How much real estate can you purchase compared to stock with the $100,000?
• With either stock or real estate, how much is your investment worth the moment you buy?
• What can you do to increase the value of your stock compared to increasing the value of real estate?
• If your investment in stock or real estate doubles in value what can you do to enjoy some of the profit?

Why invest in something other than mutual funds and stocks?

In a July 28, 2002, a Washington Post article titled "The Fall of Enron: Coming Storms" staff writers Peter Behr and April Witt reported:

"On Oct. 16, 2001, Enron was forced to disclose $1 billion in losses, more than half from LJM deals gone bad. Thus began a chain of events that would drive Enron's stock price into the dirt and force the company into bankruptcy proceedings, wiping out thousands of jobs and tens of billions of dollars in savings."

What actually happened?

• Enron manipulated many of its stocks off-shore to inflate their value and avoid taxes
• The majority of Enron’s 401K mutual funds were invested in Enron stock
• Enron’s stock value climbed to over $90 a share by the year 2000, plummeting to pennies
• Estimates go as high as $60 billion dollars lost in stock value wiping out the retirement funds of most of Enron’s employees.

Enron was one of the first companies to fall because of scandalous accounting. Next would come Arthur Anderson, Enron's auditing accounting firm, and then WorldCom.

The analysts on Wall Street are fond of telling their clients to "hang in for the long haul." But all of the signs of the times are leaving the Baby Boomers hoping that they wont have to retire when the stock market is on a downward trend, or worse yet, invested in the next Enron.

What is a passive income asset?

It is a real estate or business asset that you own which provides a positive cash flow. An example is a house owned as a rental, a business such as a Laundromat, or an apartment complex. The end goal of building a passive income portfolio is to create a positive cash flow that will pay for your living expenses, at whatever level you want to live. If you need $5,000 a month to live on, then the goal is to purchase passive income properties until their combined cash flow is equal to or greater than $5,000 a month. At that point you have true walk away income, the foundation on which the wealthy build their castles.

Investment: The Real Reason for the FasTRaX Business System

Many people have asked the question “Why own a business at all?” The simplest answer given by most investors and business owners is “to sell it” so they can live their lives the way the want. The Industrial Age has programmed us all to think that income can only be obtained by working a job. The truth is that because of the tax structure we have in America we keep 50% of what we earn. If you don’t invest, you cannot get ahead of the income curve and you can never expect to create wealth for retirement or inheritance.

How can FasTRaX Investment help me begin learning Investing?

FasTRaX Investing acts as your guide and will point you in the direction of creating for yourself walk away, economy proof income. More than a how-to manual, FasTRaX Investing will guide you in what you have to know to be a successful passive income investor by:

	Learning the basics of investing by playing games.
	Building your retirement plan into your passive income portfolio.
	Leveraging your personal residence into passive income assets.
	Learning about different types of passive income assets.
	Using professional guidance to leverage your time.